{"id":5194,"date":"2018-07-01T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:36:24","slug":"elgin-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/elgin-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Elgin days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"94\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even with the construction on County Road 8, the community has decided to continue with tradition and have Elgin Days the second weekend of July.<\/p>\n<p>Starting <strong> Thursday, <\/strong>Silent Auction bidding opens at 6:45pm during Bingo and continues all weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday <\/strong>at the Community Hall enjoy coffee &amp; treats from 9:30 &#8211; 11am and then 6-handed euchre and light lunch at 7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong> <strong> night<\/strong> Quiz Night (7pm) and Spaghetti Dinner (5pm) at the Elgin Lions Hall $10\/person.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then beginning <strong>Saturday morning<\/strong> participate in the traditional village-wide yard sale and enjoy a multitude of other activities from the free pancake breakfast at Bethel Church to the village-wide water fight at the rink at 3pm. Book sales, music, BBQ\u2019s, special vendors, bake sales, children\u2019s activities, toy sales and special activities for the whole family. The annual firefighters chicken BBQ starts at 4pm at the Lions Hall.&nbsp; Beer garden and Wayne Scott and band.&nbsp; Remember to complete your <strong> <em>Elgin Days Passport<\/em> <\/strong>for a chance to win a free chicken dinner.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Sunday<\/strong> gather at the United Church at 10am for a Worship Celebration with Gracenote.&nbsp; From 2-6pm at the Lions Hall enjoy music by Jeff Code and a cold buffet (bar) $15\/person.<\/p>\n<p>For more info: <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twprideaulakes.on.ca\/documents\/2018\/Elgin%20Days%202018%20Flyer.pdf\">the Elgin Days 2018 Flyer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twprideaulakes.on.ca\/documents\/2018\/Elgin%20Day%20Passport%20(1).pdf\">check this link<\/a><\/span> to complete your Elgin Day Passport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong>Date<\/strong> :<br \/>\nThursday, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 12<\/span><\/strong> to Sunday, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>July 15<\/strong><\/span>, 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong>Event location<\/strong> :<br \/>\nElgin, ON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Even with the construction on County Road 8, the community has decided to continue with tradition and have Elgin Days the second weekend of July. Starting Thursday, Silent Auction bidding opens at 6:45pm during Bingo and continues all weekend. Friday at the Community Hall enjoy coffee &amp; treats from 9:30 &#8211; 11am and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,66,70],"tags":[552,1238,1743],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rideau-lakes","category-rideau-lakes-ontario","category-westport-ontario","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-elgin-days","tag-rideau-lakes-events","tag-westport-on-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58033,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/58033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}